Help!!!

Question

Help! Hi all! Tell me which direction in the IT field is better to choose? I am a financier by profession, I decided to change direction, learned the basics of programming, as well as intermediate SQL and HTML. I was very interested in learning these 2 languages, which direction do you recommend for further study and for finding a job? Thanks to all!

Answer 1

The cross-section of Business and IT is pretty large, you have a lot of options. Particulartly data analysis, machine learning will definitely be important in the future too. As to me I work as an ERP consultant, and also typically each company has a couple of specialized systems, either home built or purchased or rented, which relate to finance: for accounting, costing, controlling, consolidation, reporting. Professionals who understand both the finance and the IT side, are in high demand.

If you are familiar with Microsoft Excel, it might be a good moment now to start learning Python, because Excel is getting new capabilities for running Python scripts, and in my opinion this opens a large amount of new opportunities for business people to get into programming.

How to find a job is a different topic, and not really one to discuss on this specific forum.

Answer 2

If you are a financier, I guess learning SQL and Python can be helpful.

I bet you already know tradingview. Python has a TA-lib (Technical Analysis Library) which offer MA, BBand, MACD, RSI and much more you can name.

SQL combining web scraping with Python, you can store the exchange historical data. From there you can select the data you need and throw in the TAs you want. And with matplotlib, a visualization library for Python, you can plot your own tradingview like graph.

I think it would be very interesting for a personal project.